Plautinae uiginti comediae emendatissimae cum accuratissima ac luculentissima interpraetatione doctissimorum uirorum Petri Vallae placentini ac & Bernardi saraceni Veneti.

Plautinae uiginti comediae emendatissimae cum accuratissima ac luculentissima interpraetatione doctissimorum uirorum Petri Vallae placentini ac & Bernardi saraceni Veneti.
Date
1499
By
Plautus, Titus Maccius; Saracenus, Bernardus, fl. 1500; Valla, Giovanni Pietro, active 1500; Bevilaqua, Simon, active 1485-1518; Abbas, Georgius, fl. 1638; Widman, Ambrosij; Francis Edwards (Firm)
Notes

In 2 pts., with separate signatures, special colophons and registers.

"Impressum Venetiis aere & impensa eruditi uiri Marci Firmani. Registrum ... terni. CVM GRATIA ET PRIVILIGIO"--Leaf 2m6r (1st colophon).

"Impressum Venetiis per Simonem Papiensem dictum Biuilaqua : & summa dilige[n]tia emendatu[m] ut ex postremis castigatio[n]ibus patebit. Anno huma[n]itatis [Christ]i. M. CD. XCIX. XV. Klendas Octobres. Sereniss. Augustino Barbadico Venetorum Duce Imperante. Domicus Palladi[us] Soran[us] ad Bernardu[m] Saracenu[m] Venetum Plauti i[n]terprete[m] Peritissimu[m] ... Eiusdem Epigramma de Marco Firmano. Vt fuit ille sui magnus studiosus homeri : Sic Marcus Plauti semper amauit opus. Cudere quod fecit lucri non captus amore : Sed quo sit facies uatis honesta sui ... [(to right) printer's device] CVM Gratia & Priuilegio"--Leaf F3r (2nd colophon).

"Reuerendissimo in [christ]o p[at]ri Fra[n]cisco Marcello Po[n]tifici Tragurino Bernardus Saracen[us] Venetus. S. P. D."--Leaf 2a1r.

"Bernardi Saraceni Veneti emendationes in singulas Plautinas comoedias"--Leaf 2a1v.

"REGISTRVM. ... (errata) Paucis praetermissis in quibus aut deest aut superest dipthongus"--Leaf F3v.

"Posta : posca"--Leaf F4r.

Signatures: A¹⁰, b-i⁸, k-m⁶; 2a⁶, a⁸ ²b-z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, A-D⁸, E⁶, F⁴ [$1-4 (+A5, -k3,l3,m3,E3, F3,F4; ²t2, ²t3, ²t4 missigned ²r2, ²r3, ²r4) signed].

Many catchwords on leaf versos.

Printed in roman type on paper watermarked with five-petalled flower (Briquet 6464).

238(242) x 162 mm; roman 112, 107 (title, text on verso of 1st leaf), roman 80 (82), greek 80 ; 58 lines and head-line; initial spaces with guide letters occupying 3,4,5, or 9 lines.

ISTC (RLIN), ip00784000

BM 15th cent., V, p. 523 (IB.23992)

Goff, P-784

Hain, 13082

Oates, 2100

Procter, 5412

Upper cover of binding Digital image. Wellington, N.Z. : National Library of New Zealand, 2007

Digital image available: upper cover of binding, Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Details available on request from Curator, Special Printed Collections.

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy lacks leaves 2a1-2a6. Printer's corrections by stamp in inner margin at t4 recto, line 28, at ²D1 recto, line 41, and outer margin at ²B6 verso, line 38. Binding: possibly English, quarter alum tawed pigskin over 4mm beech boards (slightly wormed), two hook-clasp fastenings on fore-edge with catch plate on lower cover, pigskin roll tooled in blind with ?hunting scenes and a central strip in a repeating single floral tool; pigskin stained brown on spine. Text block sewn on 4 double supports, showing on spine as raised bands; labels pasted into top and second compartments, the top label largely overpainted, the second compartment with label "Comediae Plavtinae"; the lower three compartments each divided into two triangles with blind-tooled fillets and faded gold-coloured paint, with the single floral tool in each triangle.

The Alexander Turnbull Library SPC copy. Provenance: unrubricated, inscription in brown ink on t.p., Georgius Abbas 1638. Ownership inscription in brown ink on lower pastedown, Ambrosij Widman. Few marginalia. Pencil note on upper pastedown: 896 Britwell Sale. Purchased by the ATL from Francis Edwards in 1948. Minor water staining, worming affecting text from leaf f8 to end, some holes repaired. Acc. R1050.

Source URL
Upper cover of binding https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE480238

Related to
Digital Collection = Kohinga Matihiko 81268192800002836 Alma Collection

Other Titles
Works; Plautinae viginti comediae emendatissimae cum accuratissima ac luculentissima interpraetatione doctissimorum virorum Petri Vallae placentini ac & Bernardi saraceni Veneti; Title from reference source: Comoediae
Publisher
Impressum Venetiis : Per Simonem Papiensem dictum Biuilaqua ..., Anno huma[n]itatis [Christ]i. M. CD. XCIX. XV. Klendas Octobres [1499]
Format
[348] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)
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